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The Influence of Heredity in Exophthalmic Goitre.
The tendency in recent years has been to look upon exophthalmic goitre as a disease due to some acquired cause such as an infection of the teeth or tonsils, or to mental worry, and to disregard the inborn liability of certain individuals to develop the condition. Sir Archibald Garrod's Huxley Lecture on Diathesis delivered last Novemnber has been a timely reminder that in many diseases not actu...
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the thyroid gland is diseased?atrophied in myxoedema, and (usually) hypertrophied in exophthalmic goitre?and inasmuch as both diseases affect women much more frequently than men. But in their mode of development and the character of many of their symptoms the two diseases are very different. The symptoms of myxoedema are almost always developed in a very slow, insidious, and gradual manner ;x t...
متن کاملThe hereditary and familial aspects of exophthalmic goitre and nodular goitre.
Introduction THE hereditary and familial aspects of exophthalmic goitre, although not entirely disregarded, have not apparently been closely studied in the past. They have most often received attention in connexion with the occurrence of exophthalmic goitre among children (Cockayne, 1928; Atkinson, 1938; Moolten and Bruger, 1942) while isolated families notably affected by the disease are also ...
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are negative. It is unnecessary to describe the symptoms characteristic of this disease, nor in a short paper can I deal with the theories as to its etiology. Suffice it that amongst many supposed causes brought forward by various authorities we find changes in the blood, changes in the heart muscle, enteroptosis, floating kidney, auto-intoxication from digestive disorders, impairment of the ly...
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On the 6th January, 1926, an adult male Patient came to the Sadar Hospital, Mayurbhanj State, and was admitted to hospital, but absconded the same evening, as he feared that surgical procedures were going to be resorted to. I was able before he left, however, to secure the two rather striking photographs sent herewith of his condition. He was a well-built village cultivator, some 35 years of ag...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1863
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.125.529